ROMANTIC & SOOTHING
Story behind the song
ROMANTIC & SOOTHING, in contrast to its two stormy outer movements, the Adagio of Summer is about sunshine and tranquility. Each phrase of the melody is a beautiful fragment worthy of basking in. As such, I repeat the whole movement at 3:12 in a rhapsodic Moonlight Sonata style, with comforting triplets outlining the harmony, and an evocative variation of the song above. Each phrase, however, remains punctuated by an ominous hint at the instability of the Summer season, and the movement to come.